To whet your appetite for the release of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, here's a tapas-style selection of threatening grub, supersized on the big screen. Tuck in, if you dare
Don't eat the apple! Eve did, and we've been living with the consequences ever since. But they are just so damn tempting - particularly when offered by a kindly old lady, like this one in Disney's Snow White and the Seven DwarfsPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveBut if apples are out, what's safe to eat? An egg looks reassuring enough - unless, of course, it is scrambled and primed to explode, scalding the ensemble cast of Cheaper By the Dozen (although those who've seen the film might argue they deserved it)Photograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveChocolates are tempting, but therein lies their danger. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory contains sweets a-plenty, but these are just booby-traps for greedy children to stumble upon. Avoid chocolatesPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveAnd while we're at it, steer clear of Turkish Delight as well. Chances are it has been conjured up by a witch to bribe a foolish child called Edmund, who has blundered through a wardrobe into a place called Narnia. AllegedlyPhotograph: Joy Skipper/Getty Images/StockFoodGrapefruits are surely OK - unless you are Mae Clarke, who had one shoved unceremoniously into her face by James Cagney in The Public Enemy. And seeing as most of us aren't, we are probably safe Photograph: Stockbyte/Getty Images/Stockbyte PlatinumFirst they attacked ... and then they returned. This 1988 sequel to the peerless Attack of the Killer Tomatoes served up a second helping of mutant, killer veg. Small wonder that star George Clooney (in an ignominious early role) looks so red-facedPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveNot to be outdone, the Greeks added mince meat and aubergine to the recipe for their Attack of the Giant Moussaka, in which the titular dish crash-lands on Athens. Hilarity ensues, apparentlyPhotograph: Public DomainAnother giant food product here: this one a peach that spirited James across the Atlantic to New York. Now this peach is a home and is also good to eat. For all that, you wouldn't want to have it land on you ... Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive... like meatballs, for instance. Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 3D isn't even released until September 18 and we are terrified already. Watch them fall - in three horrifying dimensionsPhotograph: PRBeware foreign muck. Among all the horrors assembled during the course of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, few made the gorge rise like the dessert dished out by the humble villagers of northern India. Ugh, those foreigners! Confronted with a platter of chilled monkey brains, poor, delicate Kate Capshaw faints dead away at the tablePhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveLucky Julia Roberts is made of sterner stuff. Witness her fortitude when presented with this daunting side order of sweetcornPhotograph: KobalBut at least chilled monkey brains and massive corn won't kill you like the delicacies served up in La Grande Bouffe. Marco Ferreri's film concerns a band of bourgeois types who gather at a lavish villa to eat themselves to deathPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveMeat pies anyone? Your demure host Helena Bonham Carter prepares a Soylent Green-style supper in Tim Burton's Sweeney ToddPhotograph: PRAnd whoops, here is Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sometimes she serves up parakeet. Sometimes she serves up rat. It's impossible to guess just what culinary delight will emerge from the Davis kitchenPhotograph: Kobal'There's shit in the meat!' warn the service sector workers in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation - an advertising slogan that has thus far been bypassed by the likes of McDonald's. Lawyers take note: Fast Food Nation is actually about a restaurant chain called Mickey's and is therefore not about McDonald's at allPhotograph: The Kobal Collection/KobalMaybe it's best to avoid the fast food chains and eat out at a family-run Chinese restaurant, like the one in Existenz. The special tastes good, and the remains can later be fitted together to make a working handgun. This comes in handy for those awkward arguments over the billPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveBut remember: it's your attitude that really counts. Don't sceam, just make the best of it. Holly Woodlawn gets on the blower to invite her friends round for an inpromptu salami party in Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers. An inspiration to us allPhotograph: Kobal
